Obama’s Impressive Sports Scorecard

Our president is not an occasional sportsman. And whether it’s trash-talking in his regular pickup game—as described in Michael Lewis’s piece in the October issue of Vanity Fair —or playing a leisurely game of golf with his closest friends, he’s in it to win it, and quite dedicated to his skill. In fact, this June he passed his century mark for golf games played in office. Herewith, a brief overview of his more memorable basketball, golf, and bowling games and his opponents.

Rush Limbaugh

Though they never actually played together, America’s schlock-jock laureate and its commander in chief came close when Limbaugh’s biographer got a message through to the president that Rush would be down for a round. The presidential response? “Limbaugh can play with himself.” Score one for the Quipper!